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Construction Engineers often struggle to find answers to their practical problems. Even if they have access to codes of practice, specifications and other technical literature, they do not have the time to hunt for a specific answer to their queries. To help the practicing construction professionals, we provide a handy tool to help them on a day-to-day basis. You will find answers to most FAQs on a variety of subjects such as Concrete Construction, Contracts Management etc.

1: How to choose the type of cement for any concrete/structure?
Selection of cement for

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The real estate sector in India faces myriad challenges. These range from more or less the universal challenge of incurring project delays to a seasonal challenge of non availability of certain material in a certain season. The challenge of project delay is the most commonly occurring challenge faced by the Developer. This challenge is starting to assume more significance since the consumer courts have started awarding damages to the customers for delays in getting the possession of the purchased dwelling unit. The soon to be enacted real estate regulator bill

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Before we get into the reasons for any organization using Third Party QC services, we need to understand the terms QA and QC. These two terms are often misunderstood and wrongly applied by many organizations.

To understand QA and QC, let us see what each of the component of these acronyms mean.

Quality means the degree to which inherent characteristics {of a product or service} meet requirements {of the specifier or customer}

Assurance is explained by the Oxford dictionary as ‘promise intended to give confidence or ‘self-confidence’

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The journey of GEM Engserv began in 2009 when ITSI, a US based contractor specializing in federal Design Built projects, decided to set up a back office in India to manage heavy workload of quantity estimation during the bidding season that typically runs from June to September. Owing to the difficulties in setting up a company in India and managing the same remotely, this idea soon gave way to outsourcing the quantity estimation services to an Indian company. GEM Engserv Pvt. Ltd. took up the challenge to fulfil this need